Printing with the handpress. / Herewith a definitive manual by Lewis M. Allen to encourage fine printing through hand-craftsmanship.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Lewis M.

Contributor:

Seward, Victor A.

Dean, Mallette, 1907-1975.

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hand presses--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Hand presses.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

75 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cincinnati : Toronto : London : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, [1969]

Notes:

"A Van Nostrand Reinhold Book."

T.p. printed in blue and black.

"One of the supreme pleasures available to man is intelligence, discipline, knowledge guiding the hand to create beautiful as well as intellectually desirable objects, and this pleasure is uniquely inherent in the handpress."

"This book was first issued in a limited edition of 140 copies, which were printed on a Columbian handpress at The Allen Press. The present edition was offset from proofs of the limited edition. The type face is Romanée, designed by J. Van Krimpen for Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. The illustrations are by Victor A. Seward. Mallette Dean engraved on wood the pressmark which appears on the final page, and he also engraved the decoration of the hand, which is based on a fifteenth-century woodcut."--P. [5]

Includes bibliographical references (page 75) and index.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

77061